Self Portrait (2009) Painting by Ray Mcgirl

Ray McGirl was born in Toronto in 1946.
He has lived in Canada, in Toronto, Newmarket, Peterborough, Ontario and the Vancouver area and Revelstoke, British Columbia. He has also lived in Malaysia.
McGirl studied Drawing and Painting at OCAD 1963-5.
He has studied pastels, watercolour, Chinese ink painting, oils, acrylics, charcoal drawing.
He has studied various traditions to varying degrees – European painting, Canadian art, American art, Chinese art, Tibetan art.
His expressive range includes figurative, portrait, landscape and abstract works and combinations of these various modes.
Ray has taught art through the Ontario Arts Council’s Artist In the School program, Kawartha Artists’ Gallery and Studio, Trent University, focusing particularly on instruction in drawing and life drawing.
He has exhibited in galleries in various towns and cities, with past exhibitions at The Blue Tomato Gallery, The Kawartha Artists’ Gallery and Studio, Artspace, The Art Gallery of Peterborough.
Ray had a major showing of his work at The Art Gallery Peterborough.

• Nationality: CANADA
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Canadian Artists